Vulnerability · Published Jan 21, 2025 · Assigned by oracle

CVE-2025-21571

High 7.3

In plain English

A high-severity incorrect permission assignment in Oracle VM VirtualBox from Oracle Corporation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.3High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 78.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 7.0.24 and prior to 7.1.6. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle VM VirtualBox. While the vulnerability is in Oracle VM VirtualBox, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle VM VirtualBox accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle VM VirtualBox. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L).

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21571
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21571
Ubuntu:25.10	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21571
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21571
Ubuntu:26.10	virtualbox	no fix listed	UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21571

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Oracle Corporation	Oracle VM VirtualBox	* – before 7.0.24* – before 7.1.6

Weakness: CWE-732 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L

References

Oracle Advisory vendor-advisory